Summer in the city of roses

Author

Michelle Ruiz Keil

Call Number

• FICTION KEIL TEEN (CEN, EAS, OSH)

Publication Information

New York, NY : Soho Teen, [2021]

Physical Description

325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Audience

Grades 10-12. Soho Press, Inc.

Summary

All her life, seventeen-year-old Iph has protected her sensitive younger brother, Orr. But this summer, with their mother gone at an artist residency, their father decides it's time for fifteen-year-old Orr to toughen up at a wilderness boot camp. When he brings Iph to a work gala in downtown Portland and breaks the news, Orr has already been sent away. Furious at his betrayal, Iph storms off and gets lost in the maze of Old Town. Enter George, a queer Robin Hood who swoops in on a bicycle, bow and arrow at the ready, offering Iph a place to hide out while she figures out how to track down Orr. Orr, in the meantime, has escaped the camp and fallen in with The Furies, an all-girl punk band, and moves into the coat closet of their ramshackle pink house. In their first summer apart, Iph and Orr must learn to navigate their respective new spaces of music, romance, and sex work activism--and find each other to try to stop a transformation that could fracture their family forever.